Monday 14 April 2014

RE-UPLOAD: Diamanda Galas - XXVII International Poetry Festival, Barcelona, Spain - 16.05.2011 (DVD)




Thanks to arranzio for sharing his recording and to cEnda for sending me the links.

This is a DVD (PAL) version of my HD recording seeded previously. The DVD has been encoded from the original MTS files.

Open air, wonderful early gothic architecture, the best scenery for the type of performance you should expect from Diamanda Galas, she, the piano, and an eclectic audience.
This is an audience recording, with handheld still camera so, expect some bad framings, strange movements, etc.

line-up:
Diamanda Galás - voice, piano (Steinway & Sons) (one chord misstuned-loose, on purpose?)

The audio quality is limited by the built-in still stereo camera mics, but it's overall A (piano) and B+ (voice, well, how to "catch" Diamanda's, and there was wall reverb too).
PLAY IT LOUD!

Set list (chapters) (updates are welcome, I hope I made no mistakes, hard work done here) (most of the tracks start with Diamanda making comments about the previous song)

1. Anoixe Petra (lyrics by Lefteris Papadopoulos) + Tengo que Subir al Puerto (spanish traditional)
2. You Don't Know What Love Is (lyrics by Don Raye) + Amsterdam (lyrics by Jacques Brel)
3. Missing Dates (lyrics by William Empson) + In Despair (lyrics by Constantine Cavafy)
4. All's Gone (lyrics by Harold Pinter, from the movie The Servant) + La Sierra de Armenia (traditional spanish flamenco, famous because of Pastora Pavon, "La Nina de los Peines"))
5. Die Stunde Kommt (lyrics by Ferdinand Freiligrath, austrian poet, favorite from Marlene Dietrich) + Amours Perdues (lyrics by Joseph Kosma, Georges Neveux)
6. The Thrill Is Gone (lyrics by Roy Hawkins and Rick Darnell) + Heaven Have Mercy (lyrics by Phillippe Gerard and Jacques Larue)
7. Encore - Fernand (lyrics by Jacques Brel)
8. Encore 2 - Gloomy Sunday

Funny speech between Song 11 and 12 (middle of track 6), about journalists saying her she's gothic ("conyosos" great invented spanish word) and an unexpected or just casual joke saying "porque porque porque", a famous 2011 spanish soccer sentence from coach Jose Mourinho, was it casual or intentional? That's why the woman next to me laughs so loud. I think it's been unintentional. (let me say that this sentence was used by that coach to complain why his team, Real Madrid, was losing every important match, blaming referees and federations alike, but not his fault, of course).
My camera has a 30 minutes limit for continuous recording and, in consequence, I stopped recording several times, ending up with 8 tracks, one per chapter in this DVD.

Lineage:
Panasonic still camera TZ10 with stereo built-in mics > SD card (.mts files) > USB cable to hard drive (mac mini) > Toast 10.0.8 > VIDEO_TS (pal)


p1 http://dfiles.eu/files/57l9i9qlg
p2 http://dfiles.eu/files/2r1whhoa2
p3 http://dfiles.eu/files/t5m0qbehx
p4 http://dfiles.eu/files/v7l6efnha
p5 http://dfiles.eu/files/g30ooual0
p6 http://dfiles.eu/files/g65y48y6w

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